Solve a cross-threading Exception in WinForms

Question

Presently I\'m working with WinForms(in C#) and I have to run the application in the background. For this purpose I\'m using asynchronous. When I run the application it\'s s

Answer 1

Most often, the best way to do this sort of thing with WinForms is to use BackgroundWorker, which will run your work on a background thread, but provide you with a nice clean way to report status back to the UI.

In a lot of everyday .NET programming, explicitly creating threads or calling .Invoke is a sign that you're not using the framework to its full advantage (of course, there are lots of legitimate reasons to do low-level stuff too, it's just that they're less common that people sometimes realise).